Dan Williams, the minister of mental health and addiction, said the proposed changes aim to strengthen the province's position in current class actions to recover opioid-related health-care costs and other damages.
"I am determined to get every single red cent I can from those who are responsible for causing this crisis." Across Canada, there were more than 38,000 suspected opioid-related deaths between January 2016 and March 2023. Some experts have argued the COVID-19 pandemic likely worsened the crisis. The Alberta government announced in October 2019 that it would participate in the class action and passed its initial legislation that December.
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